Saturday, March 12, 2022

Links — 12 Mar 2022 Part 2

The Vineyard of the Saker
On maps wars and hate-filled mobs “canceling Russia”
http://thesaker.is/on-maps-wars-and-hate-filled-mobs-canceling-russia/

http://thesaker.is/bonnie-faulkner-interviews-andrei-martyanov-about-the-ukraine/

Rostislav Ishchenko on the war in the Ukraine
http://thesaker.is/rostislav-ishchenko-on-the-war-in-the-ukraine/
Iurii Podoliaka about the effect of sanctions on Russia
http://thesaker.is/iurii-podoliaka-about-the-effect-of-sanctions-on-russia/

“Ukraine, Bio-weapons, & the Pentagon”
Keith Hartzler for the Saker Blog
http://thesaker.is/ukraine-bio-weapons-the-pentagon/

RayMcGovern.com
Robert Scheer interviews Ray McGovern
https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/11/ray-mcgovern-what-role-has-the-u-s-played-in-the-ukraine-crisis/

https://raymcgovern.com/2022/03/12/russia-ukraine-101-laced-with-anecdotes/
Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and retired 27-year career CIA whose tasks included preparing and briefing The President’s Daily Brief and leading the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch

Oilprice
Oil Could See Its Biggest Supply Shock Since 1973
Tsvetana Paraskova
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Could-See-Its-Biggest-Supply-Shock-Since-1973.html

The Independent World
War in Ukraine: More countries will ‘feel the burn’ as food and energy price rises fuel hunger, warns WFP
World Food Programme
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-war-food-energy-price-rises-hunger-b2033782.html

Defend Democracy Press
Trump says he would have already threatened Russia with nukes (He has heard about MAD, right?)
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/trump-says-he-would-have-already-threatened-russia-with-nukes/

Strategic Culture Foundation
‘This Is What Liberal War Fever Looks Like’
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/12/this-is-what-liberal-war-fever-looks-like/

The Last Refuge
Propaganda Fail – Former Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, Explains Why Putin Is Worse Than Hitler (Going beyond Godwin's law)
Sundance
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/12/propaganda-fail-former-ambassador-to-russia-michael-mcfaul-explains-why-putin-is-worse-than-hitler

SouthFront (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)
War In Ukraine Day 17: Ukrainian Forces Prevent Russian Advance In Donbass (Videos 18+)
https://southfront.org/fjghljdksgh98745/








14 comments:

Footsoldier said...

The Jerusalem Post highlighted the problem in 2015.

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Ukrainian-Jews-shocked-after-city-elects-neo-Nazi-mayor-437975

The United States has been at war for 225 of the 246 years it’s been in existence. That’s more than 91% of the time they’ve been a nation. No other nation on earth comes close. It’s basically all they do.

Thought what a wonderful idea it would be to fund and arm these lunatics to the teeth to provoke Russia. After Russia lost millions of lives to the Nazis in World War 2.

Footsoldier said...

Have the US and NATO overplayed their hand and have they gone too far?

As people marched in Italy over the weekend to leave NATO. Will other countries follow and simply realise without Russia or China They could very easily be next ?

Footsoldier said...

Thomas Fazi's take on it



America has won Europe’s war



https://unherd.com/2022/03/america-has-won-europes-war/?1646894267968

Peter Pan said...


The longer the military operations in Ukraine, the likelier Putin has made a tactical blunder.

Matt Franko said...

See poll here MAGA very anti Ukraine:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/12/majority-of-americans-sense-something-doesnt-add-up-in-the-media-ukraine-narrative/

Last Refuge extreme MAGA ….

Ukraine viewed as a bit weak in their response to second impeachment accusations…

lastgreek said...

"After Russia lost millions of lives to the Nazis in World War 2."

Yeah, that will teach them not to make any more pacts with Nazis.

The Red Army was hardly less evil than the Nazis.

Get yourself a serious history book.

lastgreek said...

Matt, I think it's mostly Tucker now that Trump and Putin are no longer BFF.

lastgreek said...

Strategic.

To paraphrase Patrick Cockburn, he's gotta be the dumbest of the dumb Russian leaders ever.

As speaking of dummies, the Calculus Books for Dummies is an excellent introduction to the subject. It's worth it just for the precalculus review alone.

Tomorrow the world celebrates Pi Day. Would be now if the dummy Putin declares a one-day ceasefire to celebrate the beautiful constant. (Why is it called a constant? And what was the latest contribution to our knowledge about Pi?)


lastgreek said...

Now is nice, as in "gneiss is nice."

Matt Franko said...

I think trump has lost a lot of respect for Putin bringing all of this shit storm down on Russia…

Ahmed Fares said...

Pi is stupid because it defines the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter when it should really be relative to the radius, which gives us Tau. That way, we're not constantly seeing 2 pi radians come up in our formulas, but rather 1 Tau radians.

Pi Is (still) Wrong

Pi was almost 6.28…

The Tau Manifesto

Happy Pi Day! Unless you are a Tauist

As the world celebrates Pi Day on Friday, a movement is growing that claims pi — or 3.14, the ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference — is wrong.

The Tau Day movement supporters — also known as Tauists — say the circle's constant should use the radius, not the diameter.

Tau (τ) comes out to 2π, or 6.28. Tau Day is celebrated June 28, and Tauists refer to Pi Day as Half Tau Day.

The Tauist argument is laid out in the Tau Manifesto, written in 2010 by theorist Michael Hartl: The definition of a circle is the set of points a particular distance from the center. That distance is the radius.

"When you divide by the diameter, you're really dividing by twice the radius, so that factor of 2 shows up everywhere," Hartl said in an interview with USA TODAY Network.

Hartl isn't the first person to dispute pi. In 2001, Bob Palais, a math professor at the Utah Valley University, wrote an article titled, "π is wrong!" in The Mathematical Intelligencer.

Palais points out that Leonhard Euler, the mathematician who popularized pi, actually used the 6.28 value first.

Euler went back and forth between the 3.14 and 6.28 values, "so he was sensible and used it for what seemed appropriate for a particular setting," Palais said in an e-mail to USA TODAY Network.

Peter Pan said...

My niece is gneiss, my nephew's on ice.

lastgreek said...

Hockey player, eh?

lastgreek said...

Pi vs Tau. Wow!

And the winner is... Pi!

Because Tau is needless. Now, if you want to use Tau, go right ahead (it is no slice of Pi off my plate). As long as it has a Greek name, that is all that matters.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPv1UV0rD8U

Trivia: Wales has produced to famous men. Both are named Jones -- Tom Jones
(She's a Lady!) and William Jones (Pi)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_(mathematician)